“Think of an IPO as a real option quite early on in your entrepreneurial journey.”
That’s the advice from serial entrepreneur Emma Sinclair MBE, founder of Enterprise Jungle and the youngest person in the UK to take a company public – she did so aged 29.
Sinclair was participating in a Female Founders Forum roundtable hosted by The Entrepreneurs Network at the London Stock Exchange.
The purpose of the discussion was to look at what needs to be done to ensure that more female founders scale their businesses and in particular, exploring why they should consider listing their companies on the stock exchange as a viable option to raise funds.
Although she admitted that it was often rare for entrepreneurs to start considering an IPO quite early on, Sinclair encouraged them to do so....